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News in Last 12+ Months
March 2024: Blog @ UN CSTD
I wrote a short piece on the consequences of replacing human creatives with generative AI for United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development.
March 2024: Nightshade @IEEE S&P
Congrats to Shawn, Wenxin, Josephine, Stanley. The Nightshade paper will appear at IEEE S&P 2024
Jan 24-26, 2024: Stockholm Sweden
Keynote at Konstnärernas Riksorganisation, Artist Assoc. of Sweden
Dec, 2023: USCO
Dec, 2023: AoP, London
Assoc. of PhotographersNov, 2023: Shawn/Jenna/Emily named to Forbes 30 under 30!
Nov, 2023: Chicago Innovation Award
Nov, 2023: TIME Best Inventions 2023
Glaze wins special mention in TIME magazine
Nov, 2023: Testimony, IL State Legislature
Oct 27-29, 2023: Lightbox
Oct 25, 2023: C3.AI DTI Workshop
Oct 18-19, 2023: KPMG/Booth Economic Forum
Oct 9, 2023: Distinguished lecture, Columbia CS
Sept 2023: Salsa Picante @CCS
Congrats to Cathy and Emily for their Salsa Picante paper to appear at CCS!
Sept 2023: Optimal Loss @NeurIPS
Congrats to Wenxin, Arjun and Princeton collaborators on their NeurIPS Spotlight paper!
August 2023: Glaze on CNN
CNN Article on Glaze & artists that use it.
August 2023: Glaze wins 2 awards
Glaze receives Distinguished Paper Award and USENIX Internet Defense Prize 2023!
July 2023: NYT AI Panel
June 2023: OUSD TAIA Workshop
on deception in AI
June 2023: NeurIPS AC
May 2023: keynote @ BigTen+ conference
May 2023: Glaze and Keystroke inference papers at Usenix Security 2023
Congrats to Shawn, Zhuolin, Jenna, Yuxin, Emily, Zain!
May 2023: talks at ICLR Workshops
RTML, BANDS
April 2023: Veritas Forum
April 2023: More press on Glaze
NHK, Asahi, Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan)
Mar 2023: Keynote CASE Editors Forum
Mar 2023: AI/ML Media Advocacy Summit
A great event organized by the Concept Art Association and other creative artist guilds. I spoke in the AI Ethics panel along with Timnit Gebru, YouTube video.
Feb 2023: WTTW Chicago Tonight
Talking about protecting artists with Glaze
Feb 2023: NYT article on Glaze
NYTimes article by the great Kashmir Hill on Glaze, our new project to protect artists from style mimicry by AI-art models
CODE
Clickstream modeling code here
Measurement-calibrated
graphs here
Embedding graph coordinate systems here
Other Stuff
Google Scholar (~36,000), H-index: 77
Erdos # = 3 (Erdos-M. Saks-K. Hildrum-B. Y. Zhao)
This page, circa 2011
I am a Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at University of Chicago. Over the years,
I've worked on a number of areas from P2P networks, online social networks, cognitive
radios/dynamic spectrum, graph mining and modeling, user behavior analysis. Since 2016,
I've focused on security and privacy in machine learning and wearable systems,
including authentication and biometrics. My broad interests have led me to publish at a range
of top conferences, including USENIX Security/Oakland/CCS, NeurIPS/CVPR, IMC/WWW, CHI/CSCW, and
SIGCOMM/NSDI/Mobicom. Here's a wordle of paper abstracts around 2019.
I am Director of Graduate Studies at UChicago Computer Science. For DGS related questions, please email me at "dgs at cs dot uchicago dot edu".
Together with Prof. Heather Zheng, I co-direct the SAND Lab (Security, Algorithms, Networking and Data) at University of Chicago. I received my PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2004, where I was advised by John Kubiatowicz and Anthony Joseph, and created the Tapestry distributed hash table (dissertation). I received my MS from Berkeley in 2000, and my BS in computer science from Yale in 1997. I am an ACM Fellow (2021), a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2005), USENIX Internet Defense Prize (2023), MIT Tech Review's TR-35 Award (Young Innovators Under 35) (2006), IEEE Internet Technical Committee's Early Career Award (2014), and one of ComputerWorld's Top 40 Technology Innovators under 40. Back when my kids were small and I had "free time," I wrote about research and PhD life on Quora.
Teaching
Spring 2023: Time/location TBD, CS30100 (Technical Writing and Presentations)
Clear, logical writing and presentations are foundational skills for
computer scientists. This class is meant to introduce computer science
students to basic ideas and techniques for effective communication in
both writing and presentations. The class will include several
complementary components, including critical analysis of technical
papers, weekly writing assignments focusing on writing style, clarity,
and logical flow, and discussions of style for different research areas
and venues. The course is primarily targeted towards graduates
students, although undergraduates can audit the class (or enroll with
permission from the instructor). No prerequisites.
Press/Media: Recent media coverage of our research, including New York Times articles (by the amazing Kashmir Hill) on our art anti-mimicry tool Glaze, our image cloaking tool Fawkes, and our Bracelets of Silence, an ultrasonic, wearable microphone jammer for personal privacy.
Project Links
- Nightshade: proactive content copyrights, Website/paper/downloads
- Glaze: protecting artists against style mimicry, Website/paper/downloads
- Forensics for Poison Attacks on DNNs, Website/code/slides
- Blacklight: scalable defense for DNNs against black-box attacks, Website/code
- Fawkes: image cloaking against facial recognition, Code/Paper/Video/Media and News
- Neural Cleanse: detecting/mitigating backdoors in DNNs, Code/Paper
- Bracelets of Silence: wearable ultrasonic jammers, Project/papers/code/video.
I'm always looking for bright PhD students!!
I'm always interested in self-driven/passionate students who want to work on high impact projects and have fun doing it.
UChicago is a fantastic place to do a PhD, and we're constantly making
improvements to the lab and the department. To find out a bit more about me as an advisor, and my
views on everything from students to research and the meaning of life, you can read some of my posts on
Quora, where I've been "Top
Writer" since 2014.
To get on a short list of names Heather and I will look for when reviewing applications, please fill out a basic form. This is better than email.
I read all my emails. But due to the volume of emails, I am often
unable to reply to individual emails.
If you are looking for a summer undergraduate internship, please do not email me directly. UChicago CS has organized a summer undergraduate internship program with more info here. If you are a high school student or undergraduate looking for a summer internship related to data, you might be interested in the DSI Data and Computing Summer Lab. SAND Lab is involved in both programs, although the number of interns we take each summer can vary depending on the applicant pool.
UChicago Undergraduates interested in research?
We generally advise 3-5 undergraduates in my lab in active
research (we have several spots open for fall 2022). If you're interested in working in my lab as an
undergrad, drop me an email. Generally speaking, the best way to join my lab
as an undergrad is to take
and do well in my courses in networking or applied ML.